Childhood and Adolescence Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Applications

Subjects:

• Psychology » Psychology (General)
• Psychology » Social Psychology

Reviews:

• This book demonstrates that developmental psychology has come a long way from the assumed neutrality of "culture free." Everyone who reads this book will recognize the importance of contextualization. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
  —Choice March 2005
• This collection presents an overview of recent research by psychologists and anthropologists concerning child and adolescent development across cultures. The contributors address such topics as worldwide changes in children's lives, parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, gender roles and adolescence in industrialized and developing nations.
  —Reference & Research Book News August 2005

Table of Contents:

• VOLUME ONE
• Foreword by T.S. Saraswathi
• Preface by Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
• The Cross-Cultural Study of Children and Adolescents
• The Cross-Cultural Study of Human Development: An Opinionated Historical Introduction by Uwe P. Gielen
• Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood by Xinyin Chen and Violet Kaspar
• Child Care and Parenting
• Social Contexts of Weaning: The Importance of Cross-Cultural Studies by Hillary N. Fouts
• Challenging Expert Knowledge: Findings from an African Study of Infant Care and Development by Robert A LeVine
• Competence and Satisfaction in Parenting Young Children: An Ecological, Multivariate Comparison of Expressions and Sources of Self-Evaluation in the United States and Argentina by Marc H. Bornstein, O. Maurice Haynes, Liliana Pascual, and Kathleen Painter
• Two Themes in Children's Lives: Gender Roles and Siblings
• Gender Roles in Childhood and Adolescence by Deborah L. Best
• Sibling Interactions by Ashley E. Maynard
• Adolescents in the Global Village
• Adolescents in the Developing World by Judith L. Gibbons
• Adolescence in the 21st Century: A Worldwide Survey by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors
  
• VOLUME TWO
• Foreword by T.S. Saraswathi
• Preface by Uwe P. Gielen and Jaipaul L. Roopnarine
• Worldwide Perspectives in Children and Adolescents
• All the Worlds Children: Global Demographic Trends and Economic Disparities by Oksana Chumachenko and Uwe P. Gielen
• Literacy Development in Global Perspective: A Research and Policy Approach by Daniel A. Wagner
• Difficult Adjustments
• The Changing Developmental Dynamics of Children in Particularly Difficult Circumstances: Some Examples of Street and War-Traumatized Children by Lewis Aptekar
• Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Developmental Psychopathology by Thomas M. Achenbach
• The Adaptation of Immigrant Children in the United States of America
• The Adaptation and Acculturation of Children from Immigrant Families by Andrew J. Fuligni
• Factors Tied to the Schooling of Children of English-speaking Caribbean Immigrants to the United States by Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Pauline F. Bynoe, and Ronald Singh
• The Acquisition of English and Maintenance of Native Language by Immigrant Children and Adolescents in North America by Gisela Jia
• Epilogue
• Cross-Cultural Study of Human Development: Following the Yellow Brick Road in Search of New Approaches for the 21st Century by Harry Gardiner
• Appendix: Human Development in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Selective Bibliography by Uwe P. Gielen
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors